To-Gather Family have created an interactive and creative learning environment called To-Gatherland: ‘It's not on the map but everybody is looking for it.' It is also knowledge based, full of flows and peaks.

Special thanks to the partners and the specialists in the To-Gather Family and furthermore the musicians, the designers, the dancers, the crew, the lay-outers, the feedbacks, the webmasters, the teachers at the spot and  the wise Advisory Board. But the real superstars of To-Gather are the 2500 young people, who turned the festivals and the project into a great success and who made it alive and kicking.

During the project we were standing on the shoulders of giants as Howard Gardner, Jeremy Rifkin, Mary Helen Immordino, Peter Sloterdijk, Manuel Castells, Norman Davies, Fred Korthagen, the bands Muse and Interpol and Sigur ros. Gerhard Richter and Kishore Mhabubani. Sometimes we were didactic and theoretical criminals, stealing good practice and great ideas. After all we learned how learners are learning to learn and to integrate new and innovative ideas about education, history, pedagogy, brain-research, sociology, philosophy, music and art. Real life learning in the middle of the present society.

We never walked alone, gathering the nine M&Ms for To-Gatherland:

‘It's not on the map but the destination of all'

Nine M&Ms are:

1. Multiple society

2. Memories: about the past that's no history

3. Multi-disciplinary approach

4. Mind, Brain and Education (Mary-Helen Immordino-Yang)

5. ‘Mind you step': multiple learning in a learning route with seven steps

6. Five Minds for the Future (Howard Gardner)

7. Multiple intelligences (Howard Gardner)

8. Empathy (Jeremy Rifkin)

9. Multiple Choice Identity to make the right choices

I cannot say it better then Iveta and the students from Presov:

‘Firstly I would like to express that if I were the evaluator from EC I would be impressed by complexity as well as influence of project and work done. Behind of the report a lot of personal investment, spread energy is felt. It is impressive how frontiersless project was.

You have influenced the people in a different part of the world substantially. Last week I organised the certification ceremony, we went back to festival and memories.

You can mention in the report that using feedback reports from students / they expressed - 16,17,18 years old students of lyceum, that first time in life they learnt such interesting things via extraordinary and attractive way'

On 1-11-2011 the second phase of To-Gather ended. But don't worry, To-Gather is a project for and in the future.

So in 2012 it's about time to start To-Gather-Three. ‘One two three let's go'

What's up?

‘A splendid time is guaranteed for all' (John Lennon).

1. The learning routes may be used as a Tom Tom, a flexible and creative guide to let young people find their own way in To-Gatherland. More and more good practice will be done in schools in the participating countries. New countries will be ‘çonquered':and discovered like Germany, Egypt, Morocco, Oekraine, Rumania, Italy, Syria, Poland, Sweden. Let's follow the little dragon on his ‘Musade' (see the site http://www.to-gather.org/) .
2. The toolkit (go to the website) may be used in and outside of schools by projectleaders and teachers in order to start to work with the learning arrangement such as the learning routes, the CDS, the clips or other material. IKEA has shown some interest for this tool.
   Most important is that you will create new routes about new themes, steps, images, knowledge, art or music.
   By using the toolkit parts of To-Gather may be integrated in existing modules about history, citizenship, identity development of young people, migration, social media, inclusion, philosophies of life and family and friends.
   To-Gather-Festivals will be organised in several European countries in 2012-2013 and hopefully in Syria in the post-Assad-period.
3. Training courses for teachers and Intensive Programmes for students will be organised in Kortrijk, Riga, Groningen, Istanbul, Koper and other places.
4. The making of the book and the film ‘It's hard to become who you are' in 2012 and 2013. The book and the film are sources of information, inspiration and imagination for the youth of today. My inspiration is also what we did together in the last five years. The book and the film are about the youth of today in Europe and the Arab world related to the past, the present and the future.
   In 2012 we will need money for the making of the film and like the leading actress Duygu Akkaya said: ‘It's the film that everybody is waiting for'.   
5. The creation of links to other projects such as Future of Learning with Howard Gardner at Harvard University, Mind Brain and Education with Mary Helen Immordino, EMUNI and other new projects about young people, film, music, citizenship, the digital; revolution, migraton and globalisation. You are all the ambassadors of and in To-Gatherland.
6. The cooperation with the network of CiCe (2011-2014), ETEN and EMUNI. The To-Gather Family will be active in all kind of CiCe-working groups.
   Let's invite CiCe-members to come and to do some ‘CiCeeing' in To-Gatherland.
   Also the cooperation with Future of Learning, including the presentation of the teaser of the film and a workshop by Mary Helen Immordino of  MBE were highlights.   
7. The giving of a presentation for teachers and/or students about To-Gather or a specific part, that you want to implement. The presentation will be done by a group of about four people from To-Gather, including a lecture about the concept, workshops and a performance (live or on video).  The presentation may last one day or three days. Mail to w.kratsborn@planet.nl

‘Music makes the word go round

In the year  2012

Think about the other

Not only about the self

And I'll meet you there

In the circle of the square'

Wim Kratsborn

Project-leader To-Gather

Writer of the book and director of the film ‘It's hard to become who you are'